In practice, this meant all but the most atrocious offenses got mere wrist slaps. |
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Still, I look at that pager and think that while it weighs mere ounces, it could end up feeling like a ball and chain. |
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Recent stock market falls offered a sobering reminder of how mere economic concerns can quickly look like crises. |
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Just because someone is a baby, a little kid, a mere youngster, doesn't mean they're not worthy of protecting, does it? |
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These were the small fry of the trade, the hawkers, who often reappeared with new stock mere hours after a confrontation. |
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He has further endeared himself to local fans by staging free tournaments or charging a mere R10 admission fee. |
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The house itself, a mere shooting box of about fifteen rooms, built in the style of the last century, had an air of neglect. |
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A bird the color of rye bread chirped as it winged by and out into the distance until it became a mere dot in the sky. |
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In his short fiction Man-Eating Cats, he describes an adulterous affair not in terms of mere love but as total and complete empathy. |
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Their age and mere existence confer legitimacy, and sometimes inspire campaigns to revive traditions that are lapsing. |
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The mere fact that he did as asked cannot in my judgment be properly treated as the waiver of an express statutory right. |
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They had even been so foolish as to slaughter a mere angel who had been visiting a local church to bestow blessings on the regular attendants. |
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A mere glance down the lunchtime menu had my taste buds tingling in anticipation. |
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Her songs are tough and earthy, hating mere prettiness when fieriness or forcefulness are required. |
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No, she thought sadly, painfully aware that he was standing mere feet away from her. |
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I am totes shocked that a mere two glasses of red wine can produce a hangover. |
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She had never seen such beautiful homes that were rather mansions than mere houses. |
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That struggle illustrates how broad-based culture, popular and vulgar, is far from being a mere distraction or a source of self-absorption. |
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If the heart is not inspired by sincerity in bestowing alms then almsgiving becomes mere display. |
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I'm pretty shy and not that aggressive, so this is kind of a big deal to me, even if others might see it as a mere bagatelle. |
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We need creative builders, not mere reformers or rejectionists, in order to build something new. |
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It was missing only a certain small gesture on Lance's part, a mere bagatelle. |
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The mere thought of this weak-kneed party getting into power sends shudders down my spine. |
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At a mere 37 miles from top to toe, it makes an ideal destination for the moderately adventurous traveller. |
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Can a mere focus on theory and skill acquisition be detrimental to the effectiveness of family therapists? |
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A mere six actors played all the protagonists, and the accents used were convincing and amazingly different. |
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If the mere thought of pulling your bathing cap on makes you want to scream and you feel you're just going through the motions, what's the point? |
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This is epitome of blindness, that mere externalities blind one to reality, even when it is right before one's face. |
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During sandstorms, sand is sucked into engines, where it wreaks havoc on moving parts, adding years of wear and tear in mere months. |
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More than mere testimonials, these comments underline Zinn's unsentimental dedication to the democracy he believes in. |
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A slight boy, standing 5 feet 5 inches and weighing a mere 115 pounds, Weider became easy prey for local thugs. |
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Challenges to official director slates will likely be rare, but the mere threat of them could weigh heavily on management decisions. |
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In ancient and aboriginal cultures, dreams were too important to he entrusted to mere dreamers. |
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They seem content to let prices climb further out of reach of us mere mortals earning regular salaries. |
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She described how the mere sight of the Pope's plane was met by rapturous applause and tears of joy. |
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How I thought that mere glue would hold under the heat and aerodynamic force, I don't know. |
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If we do not make a stand, we will acquiesce to our positioning as mere spectators in the construction of our society. |
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Mr. Erickson-Moore stood behind me and wrenched the leaf-pole from my weak grip, breaking it in half over his knee as though it were a mere twig. |
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The job of the judiciary is to interpret the law, but this was no mere interpretation. |
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Competitive balance is a worthy aim, but it may be a mere illusion, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. |
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Last month his rain gauge measured a mere 33 ml, compared with the August average of about 180 ml. |
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Reports of the possible spread of West Nile virus to Florida are a reminder that mosquitoes are no mere summertime irritant. |
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And yet before the area was properly mapped, mere vigilance was not enough, as the long list of ships wrecked and lives lost proves. |
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A mere decade ago, at the height of his titanic drug addiction, Earle would all too often be hopped up and smacked out in a Nashville crackhouse. |
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The loose woman within every angel is disguised beneath a mere veneer of respectability, good manners, and authoritatively imposed self-control. |
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The upshot is that the parents of Irish babies are averaging a mere 5.5 hours of unbroken sleep. |
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He was an adrenaline junkie who willed himself to do things mere mortals would not consider. |
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An oft-repeated maxim was that reason and justice are to be accorded more regard than mere texts. |
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At one time it was believed that the mere publication of information about a ward of court was contempt of court. |
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Why had she adventured her life on a bold impulse to satisfy mere curiosity? |
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Happily, the spy flick trappings are a mere smokescreen for the film's clever satire of Middle American society and Cold War paranoia. |
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Is it assumed that the south's decision to break away is a mere temporary aberrance? |
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This is a mere bagatelle by the standards on BBC Online sites, clocking in excess of 80 million a month, but it's still not at all bad. |
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If he was guilty of mismanagement, miscalculation or mere mistakes then the proper place to hold him to account would be the ballot box. |
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But that cup successes have already become a mere bagatelle to the midfielder points to him having a veteran's outlook to honours. |
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Now, as a mature garden, the trees, mere saplings when planted, are fully grown. |
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These were the treasures that awaited us at the local candy store, a mere crosswalk away. |
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We know nothing of course, but we do not remotely know even this, and mere assertion in no way ameliorates our destitution. |
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He certainly opens himself up to accusations of being so careless with the truth that it is a mere bagatelle to him. |
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As nondescript and unassuming as he seemed, his mere presence made my hackles rise. |
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But he was much more than a mere snapshotter, clicking away to general annoyance. |
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It was grander than anything I had ever seen, and still it was only a repast of moderate splendor, for a mere young lord and his friends. |
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The following day saw the launch of flights to Nakhon Ratchasima, priced from a mere 450 baht. |
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Clearly a map or a language would be rendered useless if mere replication replaced representation. |
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And the fact that there'll be the ministerial reshuffle is a mere co-incidence. |
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As always, Rathbone gives us a Holmes that is quick-witted and focused, able to deduce what mere mortals cannot. |
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Playing 49 people in the course of one performance is, of course, a mere bagatelle for this man. |
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Could those rumors of late-night binging at the Lincoln Memorial be more than mere speculation? |
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Edinburgh has a mere half million inhabitants, the bulk of whom reside within her city boundary. |
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However, this movie lacks the touch of genius that turns a mere thriller into a transcendentally surreal film. |
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Far from being a mere passenger, Hattie kept the ship's weather logs, learned celestial navigation and even handled the vessel on some occasions. |
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On either side of the wooden house were the mere structures of two large trees with no leaves visible. |
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In many places, the cast-iron pipes which carry our potable water are so thick with rust that the flow is a mere trickle. |
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Almost every foodie I have ever met goes weak at the knees at the mere mention of white truffles. |
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King Idris is involved, of course, this place could not exist without his permission, but he is a mere lackey. |
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Moments later the mainland shrank into the distance, becoming a mere line on the horizon. |
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The mere accumulation of national wealth is not sufficient to deal with poverty as a health risk. |
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These are two very different individuals separated by more than mere anagrammatisation. |
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With rental income dwindling to a mere trickle on many estates in 1880-81, signs of alarm in the Big House were not hard to find. |
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All to make sure that the children get the opportunities they were denied by mere accident of birth. |
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After Lucilla accepts him, he learns that their fathers planned their marriage when they were mere tots. |
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Over a mere five occurrences these transits of Venus had shifted from events of astronomical importance to a sideshow with mere curiosity value. |
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The synchrotron can accelerate electrons from a mere walking pace up to almost the speed of light. |
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The reason for this blinkered view is nothing other than the mere habit of thought. |
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He flirts with a phrase, whispers meaning, teases feeling out of mere notes and steps, caresses the floor. |
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More than a mere note for note re-arrangement, this version is a brilliant, vital reinvention of a familiar work. |
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You must not underrate the difficulties of my undertaking, or imagine that a mere commonplace assassination would meet the case. |
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The story was irrelevant really, and seemed to be a mere afterthought to all the effects and computer-animation. |
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Whatever method was used, I consider it would be no mere minor work to readapt the existing walls to comply with the approved layout. |
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In fact, the city is more of an international megalopolis along the lines of New York, than the mere capital of England. |
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Yet even at their most far-fetched offerings, the band's only elicited a mere chuckle and slap on the wrist from critics. |
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One being that he fell in love with a mere human who so happened to be a maid for that old hag. |
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The good is not mere satisfaction or pleasure, but that which satisfies a person as a human. |
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Ottaviani's recreation of the conversation is seriously limited by the confines of cartoon balloons and a mere six panels on a page. |
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This is not quelled by maturity, or a mere 12-year spell at Her Majesty's pleasure. |
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She has little care for anything and a mere flick of her finger will make the strongest of warriors tremble, wither and die. |
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Only 800m west of the Pool there is another kettle hole, but this one was not turned into a mere but filled with gravel, peat and clay. |
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I hope you will consider the use and practice of non-violence in a more creative and positive way, rather than dismiss it as mere idealism. |
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On checking my bank statement last Friday, I discovered that I had a mere thirty pence to last me until payday at the end of July! |
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It is far, far more than a mere institution governed by a body of, ahem, rather obtuse potentates. |
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What's new is the belief that the workplace is no longer a mere way station on the journey to children and a home. |
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Orion whipped out a slender stick mechanism from the tie of his robe and summoned the paper with a mere flick of it. |
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At first glance this might seem like a mere turn of the screw in a protracted legal process. |
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Talk of renegotiations, third ways and so on is no more than mere election fodder for the grim-faced electorate of North Antrim and beyond. |
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She has a competition weight of 63.5 kilos but, in order to remain light, eats a mere 2,000 calories a day when she is at peak fitness. |
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His accomplished studies of human failure and misunderstanding are more than mere reels of celluloid. |
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What does the future hold for the band who bill themselves as the independent mavericks in a world of mere cut-outs? |
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Exclusive possession distinguishes an occupier who may in due course acquire title under the Limitation Act 1980 from a mere trespasser. |
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The per capita use of energy throughout the developing world is a mere one-fifteenth of the consumption enjoyed in the United States. |
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They did not so much beat the barbarians as the mere appearance of Roman legions caused the invaders to withdraw. |
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Rather than a game of skill and technique, golf is turning into a mere test of power. |
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Bryar ladled the thick soup into a wooden bowl as he spoke, and Rayne could feel her mouth watering at the mere sight. |
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This may seem like mere quibbles, but there is something important in the way he misstates these positions. |
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Reducing people and foreign cultures to mere symbols for denigration and dismissal is something the best of us strive to avoid. |
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It is, your Honour, it is an extraordinary case, but at last the Supreme Court got it right, if by a mere bare majority. |
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On the day, the attendance was a mere 27,000 and after deductions were made, the share-out among the four semi-finalists was minimal. |
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To say that hagiography was mere propaganda for the saint in question is missing an important point. |
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The mere fact that I had even considered taking on this analysis already seemed to be a sign of madness. |
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Though some are light and whimsical, they emerge from a passion for both writing and reading that goes beyond mere observation. |
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To the biologist, however, the aerodynamicist's initial failure was sufficient evidence of the superiority of nature to mere engineering. |
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At present, that war is being won by mere force of arms, absent any moral justification. |
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Modern life whizzes by at a frantic pace and we mere mortals find ourselves in a constant whirl trying to find ways of catching up. |
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A mere glance upwards at a bright lamp caused it to lower from the domed ceiling. |
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In a lesser artist and person, we might have suspected mere affectation, or an attempt at playing the reluctant genius. |
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The 1974 act was rushed through the houses of Parliament with a mere seventeen hours of debate. |
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She had seen it from afar, a mere dot upon the horizon, but now she was at the foot of it and it was taller than anything imaginable. |
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Perhaps they have special skills that are denied the rest of us mere mortal men. |
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The rattling screen door and sound of footsteps alerted that Roy was mere moments away. |
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The decline and fall of a mere meritocrat in a world of privilege is the theme of this novel. |
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A bed for the night is only one shilling and stabling for yer horse is a mere four pence. |
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But his shout has not been mere bombast, nor has it been without back talk. |
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It is the degree and extent of its coverage of a part of a building which translates a mere fixing into a fitting. |
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Then there was a moment of shame, so we put up a wall hanging to cover it from the gaze of mere mortals. |
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Since both were mere boys, his parents in effect became the regents for the Regent. |
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The Lexus' wheelbase, at 105.1 inches, is two inches shorter than the BMW, but its overall length is a mere half-inch shorter. |
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Pluralism is a competency, not just mere subjective relativism, but ethical pluralism. |
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No mere reactionary, Schwartz was also interested in and informed about contemporary art that might look very different from his own. |
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This seems a little strange since she was staying in The Savoy hotel, a mere five minute walk from the venue. |
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The heavy tempests shook the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, its former military glory and pride crumbling into the depths of mere fantasies. |
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When do dolls cease to be mere playthings and pretty exhibits and assume a far more profound role? |
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For them, the mere thought of finding a stamp, addressing a letter, and dropping it in a mailbox is challenging. |
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It is a kind of private paper which demands its quota of news every day, and not rarely becomes a mere recorder of spiritual journalese. |
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In fact, he is a mere boy whose life is so painful that it does not seem to him to be worth living. |
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Of course not all train journeys are mere holiday excursions laid on for the benefit of time-rich tourists. |
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The mere fact that a person calls himself an expert does not entitle him to be believed or accepted by reason of that very fact. |
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It would have been a slur on their professionalism had they been seen to be demoralised by the departure of a mere youth. |
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That demotion, however, was a mere hiccup compared to some of the troubles experienced in previous decades. |
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He had landed straddling the front wing mirror, missing his meat and two veg by mere inches. |
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This last measure made the Justices of the Peace mere puppets, unable to commit a prisoner or to hold him to bail. |
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The human community, as he conceives it, is neither a mere juxtaposition of atomic individuals nor a superorganism living its own life apart from the individual members. |
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Will a sage coach like John Calipari be able to outwit a relative newcomer in Kevin Ollie, he of a mere two seasons on the job? |
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The danger, of course, is that, if we're not careful, golf clubs are going to end up as mere refuges for increasingly grey and increasingly wrinkly sections of society. |
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You took silk in 1987 after a mere seven years at the Bar, a remarkable feat and one which clearly marked your Honour as likely to be appointed to high office. |
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But fluctuations of mere feet during its flood season could sustain the rise of empires, or hasten their fall. |
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You may think it is a mere talkfest, but there are actually complex arguments around ownership of property and the ability to make money from farming. |
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But a mere dozen are using Linux for mission-critical applications. |
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There is the concern that in fashion, Sikhism is reduced to mere aesthetic. |
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The distorted thinking of some parents who regard their children as mere possessions instead of treating them as independent people only amplifies the social tragedy. |
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Leeds University scientists have calculated the birds, including tiny quail weighing mere grammes, are five times fitter than our Olympic athletes. |
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Clover, a longstanding environment campaigner, denies that this support may be a mere flash in the pan. |
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Husserl insists that the talk of intuition here is no mere analogy. |
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I had not moved more than a mere 5 metres when a man passed me slowly on his two-wheeler with, surprise, surprise, a bicycle pump strapped to his luggage carrier. |
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Although the country has already become an aging society, senior citizens over 55 account for a mere 3.7 percent of total job holders, the study revealed. |
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The real beauty of this rifle is that it weighs a mere 3.9 pounds! |
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Propositionally, we’ve demonstrated that monotheism is more credible than polytheism, and that supernaturalism is more likely than mere naturalism. |
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The saddhu or enlightened Hindu masters are taken care of, even deified, so that they may continue to apprehend the Absolute and astonish us mere mortals with their insights. |
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Far from being a discouraging picture of evil, cinematic devils are cool, calculating and one step ahead of the mere mortals whose souls they seek to add to their collections. |
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Newman seems to refute the idea that we're mere meat puppets, whether it be God jerking our strings or, more contemporarily, we're at the mercy of our genes and hormones. |
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The report's findings suggest that measures beyond the mere provision of housing are required to address the needs of family groups facing a housing crisis. |
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Silence or mere lack of objection does not constitute a lawful waiver. |
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There are also a few examples that can be construed as relativization out of a supplement to the relative clause, which is a mere island violation. |
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And Romney as remainderman is not a function of mere circumstance, but an artifact of explicit calculation. |
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Her body would spasm with joyous rapture at the mere thought of it. |
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The bustle of the newsroom is a mere backdrop for self-involved characters to give talky speeches and taunt each other. |
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The breakaway referendum in Crimea is a mere week away and is a gun to all heads. |
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The belligerents in abortion wars disdain this search for compromise as mere equivocation, a flinching from deeper truths. |
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Made with a tiny budget in a mere three years, Glodell has achieved the near-impossible with bellflower. |
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Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere school-boys to old Aristotle. |
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The best we mere doctors usually hope for is time with aides of varying seniority. |
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But, though less than a poet of her century, Ella was more than a mere multiplier of her kind, and latterly she had begun to feel the old afflatus once more. |
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His mere existence is met alternately with thousands of adoring cheers or thousands of hateful jeers. |
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The mere outbreak of war sets black soldiers to looting and marauding, and war's end, and their elevation to positions of power, drives the simple souls batty. |
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As result of your reading did you form an opinion regarding the sincerity of the writer in an attempt to express an honest picture as opposed to mere bawdy? |
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The mere threat to withhold authorization, in fact, is as damaging to our credit rating as actually defaulting. |
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Parents want more from their children's entertainment than mere pleasure. |
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Gina Dominguez, the spokeswoman for Gov. Javier Duarte and his cudgel with the local press, resigned a mere three days later. |
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And VanDyke and Fischer had dinner with war correspondent Steven Sotloff mere weeks before he was Kidnapped. |
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Conservative ideas play but a minor role in the account, and are themselves generally characterized as mere stalking horses for corporate interests. |
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She was used to people melting at the mere sight of her brother. |
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The mere mention of morality reeks of back-to-basics hypocrisy. |
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Since they are deniers, mentioning the divine name is mere words to them. |
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Celebrity figures are fashion trendsetters for mere mortals everywhere. |
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The more complex question is why some sports performers have that factor X which adds glitter to quality and makes a mere player into a personality. |
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It devotes the first half of its running time to the rehearsals, leaving a mere 45 minutes to cover a show that contains a solid 90 minutes worth of music. |
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So if he runs again, aged 88, the voters know they would be insane to toss that away just because some young whippersnapper agreed with them about mere politics. |
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Most reports cannot hide the fact that they are mere regurgitations of numbers and figures, wholly lacking in analysis, original thought, or even an interesting writing style. |
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It wasn't until this afternoon, with election primaries staring me in the face, that I got my act together to visit Rock the Vote, registering in mere minutes. |
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It's mere padding until the ill-fated scuba diving trip, where a miscount by the boat crew leads to Susan and Daniel resurfacing only to find they've been left behind. |
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Although they often deal with the same subject, the clearest message here is that the prints are neither preliminary workings for his paintings nor mere afterthoughts. |
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But why do you come down to our mere mortal plain in this weather, angel? |
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And how does this past, with a mere gesture or a simple regard, haunt and torment you as you wander along an empty cotton field or a dusty country road? |
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Iran will be strengthened in the region by virtue of the mere fact that it was able to bring the great satan to the table. |
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The mere fact that sickness levels require wholescale investigation suggests managers are unable to explain what happens within their areas of responsibility. |
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The sun is expected to survive for a whopping 10 million years, while massive stars live to be a mere 3 million years old because they burn up so fast. |
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Those mere twenty-seven words comprise the full text of the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America. |
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The mere fact, if it be a fact, that the constable reasonably thought that a breach of the peace was likely did not in my judgment justify the arrest of the bailiff. |
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Although the university has not made a final decision regarding the alcohol ban, the mere mention of alcohol-free residences is already stirring up controversy. |
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Still, as I wound the clock, I felt that it was more than mere decoration. |
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He seems thus to be further pressing the case for himself as experimentalist modern, while betraying some anxiety that his devices will be seen as mere mannerism. |
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Cattle numbers plummeted from tens of thousands to mere hundreds. |
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The trouble was that a mere microgram can kill, if lodged in the lungs. |
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Yes, I know it's hard to believe we had nature's fastest and most perfect killing machine nesting mere yards from us and we got fascinated by heron feet. |
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A mere bagatelle, one would have thought, to such a material girl. |
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Whether they win or not, the mere fact that non-typical candidates, non-establishment anointed candidates would step up and run for office puts the system on notice. |
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Last week's controversy over the standard of Scottish refereeing is a mere bagatelle compared to the state of anguish they get into at that most fevered game, cricket. |
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Showing images of mere reversal may in fact provide a safety valve for the social tensions that the women's movement has created by demanding a more dominant role for women. |
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Coates chronicles and pays his respects to this kind of proposal but seems to feel that they would be mere genuflection. |
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Such a sacrifice is a mere bagatelle to the committed journalist. |
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So when we speak of intellectuals or men of action, it is important to bear in mind that such distinctions are matters of degree, of mere tendencies, not absolutes. |
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Despite the fact that the women employees at Lipchanka produce high-quality products, Mr. Torshin is apparently not been pleased with their work as they are paid mere kopecks. |
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So, in short, everyone knows Leung is a mere puppet with zero power and will read out whatever the communists dictate to him. |
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But the college never wanted us to view the community service they encouraged as mere charity or volunteerism. |
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The peak and valleys paint a visual picture of the sound the newborn universe made when it was still wet behind the ears, a mere 300,000 years after its birth in a big bang. |
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Though it weighs mere ounces and takes up less space than an extension cord, a jump rope provides one of the most effective, comprehensive workouts you'll ever experience. |
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Beyond mere molestation, however, looms the graver threat of jungle fever. |
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The mere laborer has thus no more interest in the general advance of productive power than the Cuban slave had in the advance in the price of sugar. |
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But how sad to see a shatteringly relevant historical and philosophical clash shrunk to a chamber piece of mere personal conflict, and even that poorly executed. |
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Few people have the time to traipse around galleries and exhibitions, while several works carry price tags that put them beyond the financial reach of mere mortals. |
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Deneuve probably intended A L' ombre de Moi-meme, a collection of personal thoughts from the sets of her films, to be a mere bagatelle, an amuse-bouche for a curious reader. |
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But now, like its near neighbour Corsica, the Sardinians have realised that what is good for the stars should also be shared with the rest of us mere mortals! |
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Can images arising from a self apparently at ease internally and at peace with its environs ever produce images that surpass mere visual reportage? |
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Unfortunately that goal was missed by a mere 75 minutes thanks to the elements conspiring against her, but undeterred she is pressing on with another stab at it in November. |
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Ultimately, all it took was the mere mention of a lawyer for the perpetrator to delete the accounts and disappear completely. |
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They are about to see what we so often deplore as mere sausage-making, and they will love it. |
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The mere was, until reclamation, the second largest body of fresh water, behind Windermere. |
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One should think of this Italian innovation not as a method, but as a mere approccio, if we can borrow back a loan word. |
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A mere seven goals conceded in nine matches puts the Mackems behind only champions Chelsea when it comes to lock-outs. |
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If, or I hope when, Hunter returns, that list must be slowed down from warp speed to give us mere mortals a chance. |
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The mere existence of the underclass is a state problem, an economic sore, and a source of general unpleasantry. |
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On average, the pipes decline a mere one-tenth of an inch over every 100 feet, Hyke said. |
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Moreover, efforts at monumentalizing the Herodian Temple in this recreation of Jerusalem involves more than mere reconstruction. |
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The hues, usually mere gradations of tone, clearly show that the zebra shark does have stripes. |
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Within mere minutes, she's given a job singing backup for a deeply untalented song thrush. |
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Rohr's best observations are always aphoristic and incisive, reflecting not mere intellectual cleverness, but profound contemplative experience. |
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We were staying at the big, lively La Cote de Nacre holiday park, a mere 500m from the beautiful beach and town. |
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We were staying at the big and lively La Cote de Nacre holiday park, a mere 500 metres from the beautiful beach and town. |
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Even on ITV his mere presence reduces Adrian Chiles to a gibbering, nervous wreck, although that could just be his presenting style. |
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Concept of stationary state is mere methodology although there might be closed system exhibiting symptoms of stationariness. |
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In a situation of fait majoritaire the latter are mere executants of the presidential will and lose all freedom to act on their own initiative. |
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The representation of women in parliament has always remained skewed and all major political parties have always indulged in mere tokenism. |
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Their pursuit goes far beyond mere recreation as we ascetically endure cold and inevitable sleep loss. |
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A genuine first-hand religious experience like this is bound to be a heterodoxy to its witnesses, the prophet appearing as a mere lonely madman. |
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Most observers just smiled as the two bullhorns went at it, mere inches from each other. |
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Instead of turning to me and keeping to the works of charity and justice, he is a mere heathen huckster. |
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Similarly in Cambridge it was maintained in 1603 that judicial astrology was a mere imposture. |
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For what anchors adequate ideas is no mere formal consistency but the coherency of consilience. |
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But tho' a conscientious disciplinarian, he was no lover of authority for mere authority's sake. |
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He added a long litany of peripheral precedents which the judge dismissed as mere makeweights. |
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In the Eastern Orthodox Church, in general, the basilica is a mere architectural description of churches built in the ancient style. |
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The IRS took the position that the mere fact that LLCs are limited liability entities makes their activities presumptively passive. |
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Instead he found himself in a packed meeting where he was mere meat in the room. |
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In this mechanometabolic scenario, a fibroblast is not a mere passive element. |
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Lok got to his feet and wandered along by the marshes towards the mere where Fa had disappeared. |
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If you use computer applications that let you access information from a database system, you're probably a mere mortal. |
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Having won the title by a mere 5 points, Rosberg retired from Formula One at season's end. |
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It is a might be, a mere possibility from the tossing ocean of pure chance. |
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However, a federation is more than a mere loose alliance of independent states. |
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Although commitment to the nonintervention principle is often characterized as pretext or mere contrarianism, it has deep roots. |
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With a mere seven tracks unavailable elsewhere, the collection will underwhelm anyone hoping for a comprehensive collection of rare material. |
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A mere two years later, they successfully launched a prewashed, packaged salad for retail. |
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In the tradition of other low-level languages, many CIL opcodes tend to be cryptic and completely unpronounceable by us mere humans. |
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The idea that giving is a mere optionary thing, to be done, or not done, as one pleases, seems to be the prevailing one at present. |
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This sentiment is so lugged into every debate, that it has degenerated into mere parrotry. |
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This, however, is a difficult task that only a true philosopher, and not a mere philodox, will be willing to tackle. |
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The election soon became a mere formality and vanished after the reign of Philip II of France. |
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In many developing countries, the official age prescriptions stand as mere guidelines. |
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Some gemologists consider the mere presence of oil or polymers to constitute enhancement. |
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Thus the claimed similarities between creoles may be mere consequences of similar parentage, rather than characteristic features of all creoles. |
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Pseudonymy, as a modern institution, can thus be contrasted to the mere anonymity of the copyist. |
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Additionally Lutherans reject the idea that communion is a mere symbol or memorial. |
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The future may once have been mere plastics, but today the future is superplastics. |
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Cases such as this illustrate the need for more comprehensive information than mere internet searches when researching legal decisions. |
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Generally speaking, the mere receipt of a benefit from another is unobjectionable and does not attract legal consequences. |
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The letterboxes started life as mere slots outside post offices and are common in Cardiff and the surrounding areas. |
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And the irreverence of mere logicism of the Arian mind is always a threat to us enroute. |
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These matters are not mere threats to abstract constitutional principles. |
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With mere switchblades, the leaders of the Jets and the Sharks, locked in mutual hatred, demolished each other. |
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The story that he won the battle single-handedly is a mere fable. |
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But despite her antimarriage stance, she idealized romantic love and saw harm in mere sensualism. |
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For an ordinary intellect, yes, but for me a mere bagatelle, or bag-of-shells, as the ancients have it. |
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For no woman, sure, will plead the passion of love for an excuse. This would be to own herself the mere tool and bubble of the man. |
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They haven't approved the loan yet, but that's just a mere formality. |
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The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted. |
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It seems humanly reasonable that the three of us can woman-handle a mere man of your elderly and insulting avoirdupois. |
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They have found it difficult to distinguish clearly, in the exercise of power, between a personal right, and a mere betrustment. |
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It seems to me very implausible to hold that blindsighted people are mere robots in the blind areas of their self-conscious visual fields. |
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The cliff-dwellers had chipped and chipped away at this boulder till it rested its tremendous bulk upon a mere pin-point of its surface. |
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Had she been the mere adroit captivator some-times imagined, she could never have exercised this posthumous ascendency over Petrarch's thoughts. |
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In no instance is the mere membership of a club a guarantee that a man will obtain social advantages from which his clubless friends are exempt. |
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Although they were once in the forefront of consumer electronics, the calculators have become a mere commodity. |
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